Both the bar and the ATM provider immediately distanced themselves from the offending message. El Ocho de Blanco put a note on its Facebook page saying itturned the ATM off and reached out to the provider, ATM Mobile Services, according to Primera Hora.

The ATM company’s president Jorge Torres said “someone from the outside gained access to the system and programming of the machine.” Torres said his company did not intentionally offend the LGBT community and would upgrade its ATM security to make sure nothing like this would happen in the future.

It’s not clear if the bar is gay friendly or not but it’s hate pure and simple. I don’t know if customers that use this ATM service should be more concerned that people are able to send them bigoted hate messages or that their security system is so weak that any entry level hacker can so easily find a way into their operating systems. Suffice to say, until the person responsible is held accountable, maybe it’s best that no one does any banking transactions with them.

Sly Merritt has a BA in psychology/sociology. MA in clinical psychology. He's a flip flop wearing hippy with a peaceloving mindset. Even pacifists like him know when it's time to do all we can for LGBTQ equality. Sly's views are all opinions not advice.